East Nottingham Friends Meetinghouse - American Revolutionary War - Calvert, Maryland - Field Hospitals on Waymarking.com

"East Nottingham Friends Meeting House, or Brick Meeting House, as it has long been known, is of significance because of its association with William Penn who granted the site "for a Meeting House and Burial Yard, Forever" near the center of the 18,000-acre Nottingham Lots settlement which he caused to be given in 1701, at the early stage of a boundary dispute with Lord Baltimore. Originally part of the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends, this was at one time the largest Friends meeting house south of Philadelphia. The Philadelphia Half-Yearly Meeting was held here as early as 1725. Among its early members (most of whom are buried here) were Thomas Chalkley, John Churchman, Benjamin Chandlee, and George Churchman, all notable Quakers and local citizens. A school was established at the Meeting house in 1740. A lending library was in use here at least as early as 1783. In 1778, an American Army hospital was established for sick and wounded troops under General Smallwood's command; those who died here are buried in the cemetery. Lafayette's troops camped in the Meeting House woods on the first night of their march from the Head of Elk to victory at Yorktown in 1781." ~ National Register Nomination Form

Address: E of Rising Sun at jct. of MD 272 and MD 273 Rising Sun, Maryland Name of War: American Revolutionary War Type of Documentation: Web Page/Historical Documentation

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